Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:39:58 -0600 From: Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to> To: Ragnar Beer <rbeer@uni-goettingen.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail transfer agent needed? Message-ID: <20010212103957.A15502@billygoat.slb.to> In-Reply-To: <p04330101b6adac3ee47a@[134.76.136.114]>; from rbeer@uni-goettingen.de on Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 04:12:04PM %2B0100 References: <p04330101b6adac3ee47a@[134.76.136.114]>
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> Another question that came up at my first look at FreeBSD is about > an MTA. Do I need a running sendmail or whatever if all I want to > receive are the local emails that e.g. cron sends? You need the sendmail binary (or a reasonable clone, such as the ones that come with qmail or Postfix) to be executable in /usr/sbin/sendmail. However, you do not need sendmail running as a daemon; `crond' and the /etc/periodic scripts execute the sendmail binary directly. Feel free (in fact, encouraged) to put ``sendmail_enable=NO'' in /etc/rc.conf, as this only disables the daemon. Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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